 Self-Efficacy and Subjective Norms as Moderators in the Networking Competence–Social Entrepreneurial Intentions LinkAnthony Igwe, Anastasia Ogbo, Emmanuel Agbaeze, James Abugu, Charity Ezenwakwelu and Henry Okwo SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 3, 2158244020934878 Abstract: This study examines self-efficacy and subjective norms (moral obligation, empathy, and perceived social support) as moderators of the effect networking competence has on social entrepreneurial intentions. Using Nigeria as a study area, a survey was conducted on 541 budding entrepreneurs, which were students with a high entrepreneurial propensity. With the use of Andrew Hayes’s PROCESS macro, a simultaneous regression analysis was performed to establish the interaction effect of the selected moderators. The results show a positive main effect of networking competence on social entrepreneurial intentions, statistically significant interaction effects of empathy and perceived social support, no interaction effect of moral obligation, and a poor self-efficacy fit. This study extends theories of entrepreneurial intentions and the mediation (additive) models of Mair & Noboa, Krueger, and Hockerts. Suggestions are that other studies should be carried out using self-efficacy among actual early-level entrepreneurs, with a likelihood that results could explain what role self-efficacy could have in predicting social entrepreneurial intentions. Keywords: networking competence; social entrepreneurial intentions; subjective norms; PROCESS; moderation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:10:y:2020:i:3:p:2158244020934878 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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